Comment #1: Grounding Group

Great job on your presentation guys!
I think it's interesting/surprising that you found in your results that your participants were better at assessing each other's knowledge of the poem in an online medium rather than a face-to-face medium. One would think that, if you can see the person that you're talking to, you'd be better at gauging their understanding of the poem because of the abundance of visual/audio cues (i.e. from facial expressions to tone of voice). More generally, I think face-to-face overrules most other communication techniques in terms of aiding in someone's understanding of something. However, as Will mentioned today, we might have overlooked the social aspect of this. That is, when two strangers are put together in a room and are required to interact with each other on a specific topic, not only might it be uncomfortable, but i'd imagine it'd also be awkward. And because of this, the intended effect of having the dyads have a conversation (i.e. so that they can gauge how well each other understood the poem) may not be achieved. Of course, this might not be the case at all. I think with any experiment, it's important to have a large sample size. But given the time limit, I think you guys did great! :D